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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
They asked that Sharia be applied in their family matters.
What the hell do you think that means?
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I don't know, it could mean a lot of things. First, I'm not sure that everyone means the exactly the same thing when they say "Sharia." Much as you and I don't often mean the same thing when we say "constitutional."
Second, I don't know what they mean by family matters. It could be a limited to a desire to have Sharia to govern the legal relationships among family members (e.g. who is married, who gets custody of children, etc). Or it could mean that Sharia governs all matters within family discretion (i.e. I get to stone my wife for any number of slights.)
Third, I don't know if they mean just the rules or also the penalties.
Fourth, there are lot of Christians running around this country who want their religious principles incorporated into the law of family matters as well (e.g. abortion, divorce, contraception, custody, "traditional" marriage).
Finally, you don't know these things either as the article you quoted makes no tempt to explain it.
